When Alan Bond’s winged-keel Australia II ran off from Newport, R.I., with the America’s Cup 22 years ago, five U.S. teams followed the tracks to Fremantle to get it back, like a posse after the Dalton Gang.
And, when Dennis Conner returned in triumph waving the Auld Mug, that’s when the aircraft carrier off San […]
The challenge has been laid down for Team New Zealand with 10 other syndicates in the fight to take the America’s Cup off Alinghi.
The final deadline for syndicates to enter the 32nd event passed on Saturday morning.
Just hours before the deadline two new teams, from countries that have never before sailed in the Cup, […]
Dennis Conner is all but finished with the America’s Cup, unable to raise the staggering amount of cash needed to fund his own team and too old to steer someone else’s boat.
Conner, the man most identified with the oldest trophy in international sports, has said for more than a year that he likely would […]
Former America’s Cup insider Sean Reeves is continuing his fight against having to pay nearly $2 million after a United States court finding that he broke a OneWorld Challenge secrecy clause.
Mr Reeves, a former Team New Zealand and OneWorld Challenge member, was sued for allegedly retaining and disclosing OneWorld’s confidential information.
Yesterday the Court of Appeal […]
The world’s second-oldest match-racing series has something the next America’s Cup won’t.
Russell Coutts is among the 10 skippers entered in this week’s 41st Congressional Cup being sailed out of Long Beach Yacht Club.
America’s Cup’s loss Congressional Cup’s gain
After months of speculation and wrangling, Bertarelli says that he and Coutts “have amicably settled their past disagreements. As part of this settlement, Russell Coutts shall not sail for another team in the 32nd America’s Cup.” But that was last week. This week it has been learned that the door to Coutts participation in the […]
Sacked America’s Cup skipper Russell Coutts will not compete in the 2007 event after “amicably” settling his differences with team Alinghi.
The New Zealander was dropped by Alinghi boss Ernesto Bertarelli in July 2004 after a row over the running of the team for the defence in Valencia.
As part of the deal, Coutts will be blocked […]
“It’s good to win the last Act. We still have to improve our weaknesses and strengthen the team,” said Alinghi’s navigator Juan Vila. “We need to train more and that’s what we will do next year. From now on we will start building the team.”
Whatever the reason for their unusual performance, in the end they […]
New Zealand’s America’s Cup sailing team has emerged on top after the second in a series of three regattas leading up to the prestigious race.
The races, which concluded Tuesday in the Gulf of Valencia off Spain, left New Zealand slightly ahead of the Italian team, known as Luna Rossa, Stuff.co.nz reported. BMW Oracle Racing, a […]
For the first time in 150 years, the America’s Cup has returned to Europe yet while the America’s Cup match is not until 2007, as part of the ongoing evolution of the regatta, the sailing calendar will now feature preliminary Acts giving each team the opportunity to measure their performance against the other yachts. […]
After the devastating defeat by Alinghi in the 2003 America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand have been crowned the overall winners of the Louis Vuitton Acts. BMW Oracle Racing and Team Alinghi both finished tied in second place after BMW Oracle Racing won the Marseille Louis Vuitton Act 1 and then came 3rd in […]
Team Alinghi’s 3rd and 2nd place in today’s fleet racing was enough to give them a 2 point lead over Emirates Team New Zealand in Valencia today to win the Louis Vuitton Act 3 in the lead up to the 32nd Americas Cup. BMW Oracle Racing finished in 3rd place on 34 points, 4 […]